A real creative artist. As such he will be delegated to nobody status while sick destructive wackjobs like Ted Kennedy get weeks long paeans when they finally kick the bucket. We have one sick culture.
Sorry to hear about this. Terrific tone and ideas. I bought a few of his vinyl albums back in the day. Have listened to him recently and thought of him as well. Both Billy Joel’s tune and Steely Dan’s have played in my library over the past week. I did not know it was Woods on Dr. Wu.
Phil Woods played the solo on Billy Joel’s “Just the Way You Are”. Came in, blasted it out in one take.
A very, very powerful player who played with absolutely all the great names from the 40’s + 50’s.
Great player. RIP.
There’s a term called ‘Phil Woods Fingers’. It means keeping your fingers as close to the keys as possible when playing. A lot of players, myself included, have a tendency to raise our fingers away from the keys, thus slowing the response. So we all strive to have Phil Woods Fingers.
RIP
Great show.
Also, on Youtubeyou can find him playing on the TV show “Night Music” with NRBQ, a classic version of NRBQ’s “Little Floater”:
RIP.